Projector combined with printing mechanism of tickers or other instruments



N. W WYCKOFF. PROJECTOR COMBINED WlTH PRINTING MECHANISM OF TICKERS OROTHER INSTRUMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY24, 1919.

Patented Aug 1, W22

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R. D. WYCKOFF; PROJECTOR comma!) WITH PRINTING MECHANISM OF TICKERS OROTHER INSTRUMENTS. l

APPLICATION FILED JULY/24. 1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug, 1, 11922.

Application filed July SM, 1919. Serial No. 312,976.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD D. Wronorr, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Projectors Combinedwith Printing Mechanism of Tickers or Other Instruments, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The objects of my invention are to provide mechanism for publishing orexhibiting to an audience reports such as furnished by a news or stockticker, and to provide this apparatus in simple and inexpensive form,readily attachable to a ticker of the character now in general use.

Stated briefi the invention consists of a projector w ich is combinedwith the printing mechanism of the ticker or other instrument in such away as to project a picture of the record, as it is made, onto a screenwhere it can be easily read by those interested.

The particular improvement to which this present invention is directedis in the more advantageous combination or association of the projectordevice with the ticker, the projector being housed within a hollowsupport onwhich the ticker is mounted. Another feature of improvement isthe very simple means by which the ticker tape is led through theprinting mechanisms of the ticker and also through the projector.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less broad than thosestated above, together with the advantages inherent, will be in partobvious and in part specifically referred to in the course of thefollowing description of the elements, combinations, arrangements ofparts, and applications of principles constituting the invention; andthe scope of protection contemplated will appear from the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as part of thisspecification, and in which I have shown merely a preferred form of.embodiment of invention, Figure l is a front elevation, with "partsbroken away, illustrating a form of embodiment of my invention; andFigure 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 22 of Figure 1, lookingin the direction of the arrows, and with parts broken away.

in the present disclosure, a printed rec 0rd, which is also to beprojected onto a screen, is furnished by a ticker 4, the samebeingindicated as of conventional design, and provided with printingmechanism in the form of cooperating impression-pro ducing members 5 and6,between which the record tape, which may be of paper as usual, is led,from a roll or reel 7, the record strip being indicated by the referencecharacter 8. This reel of tape is carried on a bracket 9 which extendsupwardly from'a hollow base 10 on which the ticker 4: is carried. Thetape 8 advances over a roller 11, between the printing devices 5 and 6over a roller 12, thence downwardly into the interior of the hollow base10, around a roller 14 horizontally through the top portion of thehollow base 10 between two pressure rollers 15 and 16, one of which, asfor instance 16, is positively driven by means of cooperative connectionwith moving parts of the ticker, and thence out through an aperture'17in the side wall of the hollow base 10, so that as the ticker operatesthe tape is correspondingly and appropriately pulled through the fieldof operation of the printing mechanisms 5 and hand through the top partof the hollow base whence it is discharged to the outside. The course ofthe tape through the hollow base is substantially horizontal as shown,and within the hollow base in proper relation is mounted a lamp 18 witha reflector 19 whereby the rays from the lamp 18 are directed againstthe tape as-it travels through the housing. 20 indicates a first surfacemirror adapted to reflect the image of the moving or stationary tapewhich passes through the housing, into the lenses 21 and 22 forprojection onto a suitable screen in a well understood man- By means ofthis a paratus I am enabled base in position to be reflected by "the.reflector and a lamp in the hollow base disposed to illuminate thesection of record supported within the hollow base.

2. In combination with a ticker or the like, a hollow supporting basefor the same, means for supporting a length of the ticker recordsubstantially horizontally within the hollow base, a reflector withinthe base and I .means for supporting a length of the ticker recordsubstantially horizontally within the hollow' base, a reflector withinthe base and beneath said supported len th of ticker rec- I 0rd, aprojecting lens in ront of said reflector and a lamp within the basebehind the reflector and disposed to illuminate the face of supportedlength of! record, and a reflector behind the lamp for throwing thelight therefrom onto said supported portion of the record.

4. In apparatus of the character described, a lamp house, a'tickermounted on said lamp house, means for feeding a length of the recordfrom the tickerinto and across the upper portion of the lamp house,means for illuminating the face of said length of rec- 0rd within thelamp house, a projecting lens, and a first surface reflector disposed tothrow the image ofsaid illuminated length of record into said projectinglens.

5. An apparatus of the character described, comprising a hollow base, aproject.- ing lens mounted in one of the walls of said base, a reflectorin the hollow' base and disposed tocast an image into said lens, meansfor supporting a length of printed stri in the hollow base in positionto be reflected by the reflector, and a lamp in the hollow base behindthe reflector to illuminate the face of the supported length of printedstrip.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature.

RICHARD D. WYCKOFR-

